2025 Priority Bills
Constitutional Ammendments | ||||||
Cat | Number | Title | Patron | House | Senate | updated |
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women | HJ 1 Support | Constitutional amendment; fundamental right to reproductive freedom (first reference).
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Provides that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that the right to make and effectuate one's own decisions about all matters related to one's pregnancy cannot be denied, burdened, or otherwise infringed upon by the Commonwealth, unless justified by a compelling state interest and achieved by the least restrictive means....
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Herring (D) |
Passed
(51-Y 48-N) 1/14/2025
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Passed
21Y18N
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2/1/25 |
voting, justice | HJ 2 Support | Constitutional amendment; qualifications of voters, right to vote, persons not entitled to vote.
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Provides that every person who meets the qualifications of voters set forth in the Constitution of Virginia shall have the fundamental right to vote in the Commonwealth and that such right shall not be abridged by law, except for persons who have been convicted of a felony and persons who have been adjudicated to lack the capacity to understand the act of voting....
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Bennett-Parker(D) |
Passed
(55-Y 44-N)1/14/2025
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Passed
Agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N)
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2/1/25 |
rights | HJ 9 Support | Constitutional amendment (first reference); marriage between two individuals; repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition; affirmative right to marry.
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Repeals the constitutional provision defining marriage as only a union between one man and one woman as well as the related provisions that are no longer valid as a result of the United States Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015)....
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Sickles (D) |
Passed
(58Y 35N 2A)1/14/2025
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Passed
24Y15N
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2/1/25 |